I only ever once
saw a bus belonging to this operator. That was in 1963
just after Pasquier had stopped operating his only route, and one of
his former buses was
parked in the old CTC depot
yard at Tourlaville. The Pasquier route went from Cherbourg
town centre up the hill along the Route des Pieux to 'Les Buttes' and
the southern suburb of
Octeville roughly hourly. The timetable could largely be worked by one
vehicle.

At appropriate times the
service was extended at the town end to the Arsenal (naval dockyard)
for workers, and on
Cherbourg market day each Thursday two journeys were extended out in
the countryside beyond Octeville to the
villages of Héauville and Vasteville. Pasquier was
based at 137 rue Roger-Salengro in Octeville. Vasteville was also
served on Tuesday and Thursday by the Choubrac route by way of
Flottemanville-Hague.

From 19 March
1963 the Pasquier business was sold and the running of this service passed to
the main Cherbourg town operator CTC (Compagnie des Transports de
Cherbourg). The reason for the sale is believed to be
retirement. It was at a time
when the town routes generally were being expanded so it may have
been also to achieve the creation of a better integrated network under
one operator.
Four vehicles were believed to be in the fleet at the time of sale to
the CTC, a
Renault 4192, a Renault 4180, a Hotchkiss PL20 and an Isobloc 648DM
registered 219 EV 50, the latter in an orange and white livery.

On a
visit to Cherbourg during the
summer of 1963 I remember that my carnet of CTC bus tickets -
which I had happily used
that
day to
make various journeys to and from Équerdreville and Tourlaville - was
refused by the
CTC bus driver on the Octeville route, and I had to buy a separate
ticket from him.

The reason might possibly have been that at that time
Octeville was a separate municipality to
Cherbourg, the two towns not merging into one administrative unit until
much later in 2000.

Coincidentally at that time in 2000 the
other four communes in the Urban Community of Cherbourg (La Glacerie,
Équerdreville-Hainneville, Querqueville and Tourlaville) declined the
opportunity to
join with Cherbourg into one large administrative unit, preferring to
retain their local administrative autonomy.